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Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen
Age: 70 †
Born: 1805
Born: April 2
Died: 1875
Died: August 4
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Almighty God, thee only have I thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!
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Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
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He found whole figures which represented a written word but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates. But he could not find it out.
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I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.
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The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.
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She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.
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But shouldn't all of us on earth give the best we have to others and offer whatever is in our power?
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